John A. Michon

Professor emeritus of psychonomics
Leiden University, The Netherlands

Brief CV

John A. Michon (1935) is emeritus professor of
psychonomics (cognitive psychology) at Leiden University.
Following an early career as a research scientist at the (then)
TNO Institute for Perception in Soesterberg (1960-1973), he was
appointed professor and chair of experimental psychology and
professor of traffic science at
the University of Groningen (1971-1992) and, subsequently,
director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of
Criminality and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in Leiden and research professor
of criminal psychology and law enforcement at Leiden University
(1992-1998). Finally, from 1998 until his retirement in 2002 he
was senior research professor of psychonomics at Leiden University.

His research, over the past fifty years, has covered a variety
of areas in cognitive psychology, psychophysics, ergonomics,
traffic safety, and the behavioural sciences in general. In
particular he has entertained a career-long interest in the
temporal structure of cognition and (skilled) performance.

He has been actively engaged in promoting the cause of cognitive
science in the Netherlands and abroad. He is a member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1981) and the
Academia Europea (London, 1989). He holds a doctorate
honoris causa from the University of Liège in Belgium (1995)
and a Knighthood in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (2002).

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